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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by jedberg on Sunday November 24, 2019 @10:18PM (#21625166)
I spent many years shopping in the last century. The best you could do for price comparison was to scour local paper for deals at nearby stores, or if you were lucky, the sears catalog.

You didn’t have instant access to the best worldwide price.

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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by u801e on Sunday November 24, 2019 @10:23PM (#21625184)
International shipping took a lot longer and was more expensive back then. I remember going through computer parts catalogs in the mid '90s to find the best prices for the parts I needed to assemble a new desktop.
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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by jedberg on Sunday November 24, 2019 @11:46PM (#21625536)
Exactly. So no one did it and your local store didn’t have to compete with those international prices.
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Re:Why are people getting worse at “The Price Is Right”? by Gibbon1 on Monday November 25, 2019 @02:19AM (#21626099)
You didn't spend as many years as my mother did.

Also best world wide price is a fiction.

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